ChasingLilly.net

I mentioned a few posts ago that I was going to make a new homepage for chasinglilly.net, mainly because the one right now sucks. I want to make a simple yet elegant single page with large links to the blog, the band page, my twitter, and my facebook. I also want the page to include a feed of my latest tweets as well as a listing/summary of the few latest blog posts. Oh yeah, and I also want the background picture to either change every few seconds, or else change every time the page loads.

For a beginner in web design, a CSS template like that is pretty tricky. So far I’m working on the basic page look in Photoshop. It’s not finished yet, but in the screen shots below you can see the sort of look and feel I’m going for. The multiple shots show examples of different backgrounds the site would have. Obviously I want the backgrounds to look epic, and I’m going to make them all pictures I’ve taken (or else taken of me). (click pics to enlarge)

At the same time, I don’t want to look all cocky and have huge pictures of me show up every time someone loads the page, so I’m really trying to mix them up. Except for the third one, which was too cool-looking to leave out. So that’s it so far, I haven’t even gotten to the coding yet. Any thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? I’m trying to learn on the fly, and this is really a great way to figure this stuff out. Mo’ stuff ta come.



Happy Trails,

Sam.



P.S. – Keyboard Cat is awesome